Mary S. Young Park!

[EOBOY]

Met up with the FishWhisperer this morning. Hauled our tubes down to the water and put in about 4 hours of Bassing. Caught a few but he said I "shoulda been there yesterday". I'm learning a lot from him, I probably drive him crazy with all my question's. As we were leaving he thought he saw a clue as to why the bite had changed. I took a picture to show how much the water had dropped while we were there. The cement pipe was covered when we got there.

 

[TimberTodd]

Wow, that is a pretty fast drop in water depth.

 

[Big3d]

Lots of tidal influence anywhere below the falls. A reminder for those who park on Meldrum bar, what's land at low tide isn't always on land at high tide.

 

[bass]

Big3d nailed it. Right now tidal swing is 3' in that area. Size of the swing varies quite a bit depending on moon phase, flows, flows in the Columbia, etc. I think the biggest the swing gets to is about 4', but that is rare.

 

[EOBOY]

Lots of tidal influence anywhere below the falls. A reminder for those who park on Meldrum bar, what's land at low tide isn't always on land at high tide.

I had no idea that the tide had that much of an effect on the river up there.

 

[DrTheopolis]

They've been releasing more water from the Columbia dams, which creates hydraulic damming on the Willy, which increases the tidal swing (which goes all the way up to the Falls).

 

[Fishwhisperer44]

Tides?!?!? I'm used to fishing tidal waters, where can I find a tide chart for the area?

 

[bass]

Here is what I use to look at the Willamette (it is customized with sites from Eugene to Portland).

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/rive...ta[]=probstage&data[]=probflow&data[]=probvol

If you look at the bottom few plots you can see the tide action and a prediction. This is my preferred way to see the tides since you get to see the accuracy for the past 5 days plus a prediction.

 

[Fishwhisperer44]

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that it had that much tidal influence. The bite I have been experiencing down there makes a lot more sense now. The incoming tide really gets those fish active!

 

[EOBOY]

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize that it had that much tidal influence. The bite I have been experiencing down there makes a lot more sense now. The incoming tide really gets those fish active!

I never fished for Bass below the Falls before, really never fished anywhere below the falls on the willy before. Bass and Doc. thanks for the lesson!